#garfield Logs

Nov 13 2011

00:22 rue_house iamturnip, sorry, thought you said you had a manual?
01:00 rue_house iamturnip, http://www.rtty.com/development/teletype/model-15/electrical.jpg can you confirm or deny a match of that image to your machine?
01:01 rue_house it would be nice if there was a model number for your machine
01:14 rue_house http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/telegraphy/tty/codes/index.html <-- talk about non-standardization hell!!!
01:52 zhanx thin i broke a knuckle
12:24 rue_house right hand pinkey?
12:24 Tom_itx i bet it was a bar fight
12:31 rue_house I bet he used his boots to do it
13:16 iamturnip it is a model 28
13:21 rue_house hmm back to trying to find operators manual :)
13:22 rue_house http://www.knobstick.ca/cjpgs/b283d.jpg <-- send-recieve page printer?
13:23 rue_house 28 (1950s) ? Baudot code page printer; regarded as the most rugged machine Teletype ever built. Used a moving type block for printing.
13:27 rue_house 75 baud and they were worried about radio interfearance... ahaha
13:29 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9LWUIWvpU
13:29 rue_house hell of a machine
13:34 iamturnip yup thats the one
13:42 rue_house http://thehackery.ca/teletype/IMG_1206.JPG <---- LK4RG126
13:42 rue_house http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repository/telegraph/teletype_28_tech_data.pdf
13:42 rue_house L = Model 28
13:42 rue_house R = ?
13:43 rue_house ah
13:43 rue_house K = keyboard
13:43 rue_house 4 = model number
13:43 iamturnip i do have all the manuals too
13:43 iamturnip i just wasnt sure what schematic was what
13:43 rue_house RG = type arrangement
13:43 iamturnip there are lots and lots of pages
13:43 rue_house ah, it was the maujals I was interested in
13:44 rue_house were looking for the page that shows hte pinout of the send/recieve connectors
13:44 rue_house thats what I been searching the internet for 3 days for
13:45 iamturnip ok well now I know what to look for
13:46 iamturnip (there are lots of connectors to choose from)
13:46 rue_house out of the whole machine there should only be max 3 connectors
13:46 rue_house power
13:46 rue_house recieve and transmitt
13:46 rue_house the recieve and transmitt may be just 3 pin connectors
13:48 Tom_itx http://www.rtty.com/development/index.html
13:48 Tom_itx schematics etc
13:49 rue_house hmm its not quite 75 baud
13:50 Tom_itx that help?
13:50 rue_house I'm looking it over!
13:50 rue_house it looks like there is a chance the machine is a 5 wire parallel
13:51 Tom_itx http://hans.presto.tripod.com/scan/teletype/28_01.html
13:51 Tom_itx she's hawt
13:52 rue_house http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repository/telegraph/teletype_28_tech_data.pdf <-- take a look under the cover!
13:54 rue_house it looks like wetnet.wa.com is down, and thats where all the docs are supposed to be
13:55 mturnip is looking right
13:56 rue_house http://www.rtty.com/development/teletype/model28ASR/m28-13.gif
13:56 rue_house bottom left is a good hint
13:56 rue_house it looks like there is a lug-set "C"
13:57 rue_house its definitly closely tied to a 'line test key'
14:00 iamturnip the maintaince manual is huge!
14:00 Tom_itx http://www.baudot.net/tty-links.htm#Software-and-Connectivity-Links
14:01 Tom_itx http://www.baudot.net/
14:01 iamturnip but thankfully the schematics are in a small parts catalog, but i dont see any schmatic for the TX and RX specific
14:01 iamturnip still look though
14:05 iamturnip there is a functional block diagram would that help
14:18 rue_house http://www.rtty.com/development/teletype/model28ASR/m28-29.gif
14:18 rue_house look for soemthing like that
14:21 rue_house you may need a new 43uF 120V AC capacitor for the motor
14:22 rue_house I just had to replace one on a tape player thats 46 years old
16:48 iamturnip I have added IMG 1212 and 1213
16:48 iamturnip the first is a block diagram and the other is the closet thing to your last link in my book
18:35 rue_house hmm
23:02 rue_house iamturnip, do you know if you have any gateway laptop motherbaords? I had someone bring one to me with a broken power connector, like to know what I'm in for as far as how the pcb is set up etc
23:17 iamturnip we dont see much gateway stuff
23:17 iamturnip should be a straight fwd repair